Over a year ago I got on my soapbox about the digital noise I had created for myself. As I approach mid 2017 I have significantly have reduced the amount of the digital noise in my life. Work related digital noise will always be there and worth the time spent. It’s not been easy (it’s just who I am), but worth the wild ride. Once I got down to actually ‘consolidating, pairing-down and reducing my digital noise’ the realization of how far I let the get out hand was absurd! By stop running my own hosting services was...

Lots of times you need to determine your public IP address, if you are using Linux operating system to power your PC, you may use some good console commands to guess your public IP address. Most of these methods will return you the local IP and not the public IP of your proxy if you are behind one. dig dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com 1 dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com Will return public IP. wget wget -q -O - checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//' 1 wget -q -O - checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//' That...

The solution that you seek lies in creating a Smart Collection. The search filter on the Smart Collection should read {Collection}{does not contain}{a e i o u} This assumes that any collection name will need to contain at least one vowel (note that there is a space between each letter). The images in Smart Collections are treated differently from Static Collections and I believe Smart Collections are ignored in this search. It would be nice if you could say something as simple as ‘not in a collection’,...

You need to use the chage command. It can display password expiry information as well as changes the number of days between password changes and the date of the last password change. This information is used by the system to determine when a user must change his/her password. # chage -l bob Last password change : Apr 14, 2014 Password expires : never Password inactive : never Account expires : never Minimum number of days between password change : 0 Maximum number of days between password change : 99999 Number of days of warning before password expires : 7...

Add new Admin user to WordPress. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! 1. Put this file in your WordPress root directory and run it from your browser. 2. Delete it when your done. DO NOT forget this step. Thanks to: https://gist.github.com/jawinn/8012327#file-createwordpressuser-php PHP <?php // ADD NEW ADMIN USER TO WORDPRESS // ---------------------------------- // Put this file in your Wordpress root directory and run it from your browser. // Delete it when you're done. require_once('wp-blog-header.php'); require_once('wp-includes/registration.php'); // ---------------------------------------------------- // CONFIG VARIABLES // Make sure that you set these before running the file. $newusername = 'YOURUSERNAME'; $newpassword = 'YOURPASSWORD'; $newemail = 'YOUREMAIL@TEST.com'; //...

If you use WordPress as a publishing tool and platform, I am sure you know that you occasionally can or need to put your WordPress site into maintenance mode. Perhaps you are re-building your website, changing the theme, or test new functionalities or other maintenance of your website. Then it’s great to be able to quickly put your website into maintenance mode and let your visitors and readers know what is going on on your website. There are different ways to use the Maintenance Mode. There are a lot of plugins, both free and premium which includes features that can...